A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERTEnvy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
More George Herbert Quotes
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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All that shakes falles not.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Prettiness dies first.
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